If it'll annoy them to be flooded with calls regarding this, it'll annoy them twice as much if they're flooded with calls when they've said they don't want to be called.
Most oldschool FF fans consider FF6 the peak of Final Fantasy. I disagree--as good as FF6 was, it doesn't compare to FF4. It's been years since I've played FF4, and it still ranks as one of my favourite games of all time.
If you haven't done so yet, play FF4 once, and see how great this game is.
The 17" PowerBook is surprisingly portable. It's one of the only laptops bigger than a 14" that I can stand.
It's very thin (much thinner than my own laptop, which I consider thin and light) and it weighs just under 7 pounds. That ain't bad for a 17".
Of course, I still love my 14" notebook that weighs 4.9 pounds. It also gets damn good battery life--thanks to EIST (which can throttle clock speed down to 800MHz), I get about two and a half hours of battery life (in fact, I'm typing this from my laptop, while running on battery and a wireless Internet connection). Who makes it? Toshiba. If you want a good, portable notebook, I really recommend the Toshiba Tecra M3.
It's widely known that Intel will debut a new x86 microarchitecture with the Merom, Conroe, and Woodcrest cores late next year.
Reports say that it will be all-new, yet it will keep in the same spirit as the P6 microarchitecture used in chips such as the Pentium III and Pentium M (i.e. very high performance-per-clock), not the horrid NetBurst microarchitecture that made its debut in the Pentium 4.
That's an awesome site. I'll be bookmarking that for the next time I need to buy a keyboard.
Their Classic 104 model looks great--there are so few companies that make 104-key keyboards with proper enter keys.
The EnduraPro 104 model with the touchpoint sounds cool, too. My laptop has a touchpoint, and I like it enough that using one on my desktop might not be a bad idea (I don't think it can replace my hand-shaped trackball, but it's better than a mouse).
- Highly detailed (usually photographic) background images that were impossible to read text off of.
- Frames being used and abused in a time when screen resolutions were much smaller, and Netscape 2.0's (the only browser at the time that supported frames) back button didn't like dealing with frames.
I'd still take those days over what we have now, tho...
I have an HP DeskJet 832C (which was made in 1999) that still works beautifully. It prints pages at about 2-3 times the rate of the brand new colour inkjet one of my friends bought recently. I've not had to change the ink in at least two years, if not longer.
If you go this route, your only problem will being finding someone who's willing to part with one.
The "Windows" key (which is really called the Super or Compose key) can actually be very useful: on some Linux systems, it can be used in combination with the Shift key to produce certain special characters.
If I had to choose between having bigget Alt and Ctrl keys, and being able to type these characters using my keyboard (instead of with a utility like KCharSelect), I'd choose the latter.
My school (the University of Texas at Dallas) only ended such policies around a year ago.
When I first got here in fall 2003, telnet, ssh, ftp, and sftp were all allowed. Somewhere around a year ago, telnet and ftp access was disabled.
Now, they need to get around to fixing email. Right now, pop3, imap, and imaps are all allowed (or at lease I think they are--it's been a long time since I tried anything but imaps), and if they want to be secure, they should shut down all pop3 and imap access. They also have a webmail system, but I've never used it, so I don't know if it uses https or not.
The whole point of a Wiki is that anyone can edit it. Even if the page is factually accurate and up-to-date, someone can always decide that the text of the article needs to be reworded for clarity, because it'll look better, etc. Or things can change--like the Pope for example. Things can be accurate for the moment, and then something happens--he says something notable (and/or controversial), he retires, he dies, etc.
However, I think Wikipedia needs to crack down even harder on vandals. For example, there's one guy who constantly edits misinformation into variouspages, and keeps on reverting them to his version, which involves terms that he made up, and a severe misunderstanding of words like Hertz, despite everyone constantly telling him he's wrong.
Yeah, I'm bitter. I actually want to see accurate information on Wikipedia, and asshats like him ruin things for everyone.
I use IRC as my main means of getting TV shows that don't air in my country, and bogus files are rare, probably because people who run such servers can be kickbanned rather easily.
but on ball mice you were relying on the friction between ball and wheel - which dirt and grime gummed up.
Optical trackballs do exist. I've been using an optical trackball as my main pointing device since 2000, and I've never cleaned it once, because I never had to. That thing has lasted--I'm still using the same exact trackball I bought almost five years ago.
Portage usually only goes to the maker's site if the tarball's not on one of Gentoo's own mirrors.
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Agreed.
That horribly bright WinXP-clone icon theme needs to go if KDE wants to gain any credibility.
I recommend Slick as the new default. It already comes with KDE, so there's no need to package anything new. It's also the single best icon set out there--it's very sleek, and it's also quite unique. I've yet to see any other icon set that resembles Slick in any way. Did I mention that it lives up to its name?
It would also be nice if KDE were to adopt Slick's subdued colour scheme as their main colour scheme--that sickeningly bright blue is disgusting, and only hurts KDE's reputation. For the record, I was pretty pissed when KDE changed the welcome pages (shown when you first load up Konqueror, Akregator, KMail, etc.) in 3.4 to that sickening blue. I liked the subdued tones of the old welcome pages, and the new ones clash horrifically with my colour scheme.
I don't even use KDE as my desktop anymore (I'm a happy Ion zealot now), but the vast majority of GUI apps I use are KDE apps, and I like my screen to look good.
Because Intel doesn't have the balls to admit that NetBurst (the P4's microarchitecture) is a steaming pile of crap, and that the Pentium M is far superior to anything that's ever been based on NetBowel.
And, for the record, the PM already contains the only two good features the P4 ever had: SSE2 and the QDR bus. And that's on top of all the wonderful features of the PM that have nothing to do with the P4.
Yeah, Intel is really insecure right now. They're too ashamed to admit that the P4 was a massive fuckup, so they're trying to hide what could have been an incredibly good desktop platform.
I saw one of those Sun x86 PCI cards a while back, sitting around in my local LUG's lab. It was quite impressive...basically a mobo-on-a-PCI-card. It came with a processor, chipset, DIMM slots, PATA ports, onboard USB, onboard audio, integrated graphics, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.
It seems nobody ever talks about the Northbridge, which, IMHO, will over-take the CPU, within a year, as the hottest component in a computer.
More like the northbridge will disappear in a year or two, at least on AMD platforms. AMD has already integrated the memory controller on-die, and there are rumours of Socket F including an one-die PCI-E controller.
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If it'll annoy them to be flooded with calls regarding this, it'll annoy them twice as much if they're flooded with calls when they've said they don't want to be called.
Harrass them into submission.
I wouldn't. My DynDNS name ends in .org, and when I manage to come up with a good domain name that isn't taken, it will be .org as well.
Both of these are because I refuse to have anything to do with VeriSign's TLDs.
Most oldschool FF fans consider FF6 the peak of Final Fantasy. I disagree--as good as FF6 was, it doesn't compare to FF4. It's been years since I've played FF4, and it still ranks as one of my favourite games of all time.
If you haven't done so yet, play FF4 once, and see how great this game is.
Take your pretentious garbage and shove it.
Eh, I forgot to add that my friend's 17" PowerBook gets pretty long battery life, almost in the same area as my 14" Tecra.
The 17" PowerBook is surprisingly portable. It's one of the only laptops bigger than a 14" that I can stand.
It's very thin (much thinner than my own laptop, which I consider thin and light) and it weighs just under 7 pounds. That ain't bad for a 17".
Of course, I still love my 14" notebook that weighs 4.9 pounds. It also gets damn good battery life--thanks to EIST (which can throttle clock speed down to 800MHz), I get about two and a half hours of battery life (in fact, I'm typing this from my laptop, while running on battery and a wireless Internet connection). Who makes it? Toshiba. If you want a good, portable notebook, I really recommend the Toshiba Tecra M3.
The latter.
It's widely known that Intel will debut a new x86 microarchitecture with the Merom, Conroe, and Woodcrest cores late next year.
Reports say that it will be all-new, yet it will keep in the same spirit as the P6 microarchitecture used in chips such as the Pentium III and Pentium M (i.e. very high performance-per-clock), not the horrid NetBurst microarchitecture that made its debut in the Pentium 4.
That's an awesome site. I'll be bookmarking that for the next time I need to buy a keyboard.
Their Classic 104 model looks great--there are so few companies that make 104-key keyboards with proper enter keys.
The EnduraPro 104 model with the touchpoint sounds cool, too. My laptop has a touchpoint, and I like it enough that using one on my desktop might not be a bad idea (I don't think it can replace my hand-shaped trackball, but it's better than a mouse).
Yup. Let's add to the list:
- Highly detailed (usually photographic) background images that were impossible to read text off of.
- Frames being used and abused in a time when screen resolutions were much smaller, and Netscape 2.0's (the only browser at the time that supported frames) back button didn't like dealing with frames.
I'd still take those days over what we have now, tho...
Buy an old injket instead.
Damn typo. Should be "old inkjet", not "old injket".
Buy an old injket instead.
I have an HP DeskJet 832C (which was made in 1999) that still works beautifully. It prints pages at about 2-3 times the rate of the brand new colour inkjet one of my friends bought recently. I've not had to change the ink in at least two years, if not longer.
If you go this route, your only problem will being finding someone who's willing to part with one.
The "Windows" key (which is really called the Super or Compose key) can actually be very useful: on some Linux systems, it can be used in combination with the Shift key to produce certain special characters.
For example, Shift+Super+[release Shift]+E+' forms an e with an acute accent (é). Shift+Super+C+O forms the copyright symbol (©). Shift+Super+T+H forms the thorn (character not shown due to Slashcode issues...). Shift+Super+N+~ forms the Spanish accented N (Ñ). Shift+Super+L+[release Shift]+- forms the pound sign (£) (which I suppose isn't an issue on UK keyboards, but it is in the US).
If I had to choose between having bigget Alt and Ctrl keys, and being able to type these characters using my keyboard (instead of with a utility like KCharSelect), I'd choose the latter.
My school (the University of Texas at Dallas) only ended such policies around a year ago.
When I first got here in fall 2003, telnet, ssh, ftp, and sftp were all allowed. Somewhere around a year ago, telnet and ftp access was disabled.
Now, they need to get around to fixing email. Right now, pop3, imap, and imaps are all allowed (or at lease I think they are--it's been a long time since I tried anything but imaps), and if they want to be secure, they should shut down all pop3 and imap access. They also have a webmail system, but I've never used it, so I don't know if it uses https or not.
The whole point of a Wiki is that anyone can edit it. Even if the page is factually accurate and up-to-date, someone can always decide that the text of the article needs to be reworded for clarity, because it'll look better, etc. Or things can change--like the Pope for example. Things can be accurate for the moment, and then something happens--he says something notable (and/or controversial), he retires, he dies, etc.
However, I think Wikipedia needs to crack down even harder on vandals. For example, there's one guy who constantly edits misinformation into various pages, and keeps on reverting them to his version, which involves terms that he made up, and a severe misunderstanding of words like Hertz, despite everyone constantly telling him he's wrong.
Yeah, I'm bitter. I actually want to see accurate information on Wikipedia, and asshats like him ruin things for everyone.
Interesting. I learn something new every day...
Indeed.
/. articles about these Taliban-loving maniacs protesting against it.
I hadn't even heard of Bully until I saw all the
I, for one, will be buying a copy of Bully the day it comes out solely to get back at these maniacs.
That and the people who designed DC can't design streets.
Seriously, you live in the DC area, do you have any idea why the hell there are so many roundabouts there? I sure don't.
Aren't lists of demands what terrorists give when they hold people hostage?
Add IRC to the list.
I use IRC as my main means of getting TV shows that don't air in my country, and bogus files are rare, probably because people who run such servers can be kickbanned rather easily.
but on ball mice you were relying on the friction between ball and wheel - which dirt and grime gummed up.
Optical trackballs do exist. I've been using an optical trackball as my main pointing device since 2000, and I've never cleaned it once, because I never had to. That thing has lasted--I'm still using the same exact trackball I bought almost five years ago.
Nope. Gentoo has its own system of mirrors. As a test, I started to emerge Firefox (and cancelled it as soon as it started downloading), and it started downloading from this URL: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/firefox-1.0. 6-source.tar.bz2
Portage usually only goes to the maker's site if the tarball's not on one of Gentoo's own mirrors.
Agreed.
That horribly bright WinXP-clone icon theme needs to go if KDE wants to gain any credibility.
I recommend Slick as the new default. It already comes with KDE, so there's no need to package anything new. It's also the single best icon set out there--it's very sleek, and it's also quite unique. I've yet to see any other icon set that resembles Slick in any way. Did I mention that it lives up to its name?
It would also be nice if KDE were to adopt Slick's subdued colour scheme as their main colour scheme--that sickeningly bright blue is disgusting, and only hurts KDE's reputation. For the record, I was pretty pissed when KDE changed the welcome pages (shown when you first load up Konqueror, Akregator, KMail, etc.) in 3.4 to that sickening blue. I liked the subdued tones of the old welcome pages, and the new ones clash horrifically with my colour scheme.
I don't even use KDE as my desktop anymore (I'm a happy Ion zealot now), but the vast majority of GUI apps I use are KDE apps, and I like my screen to look good.
Because Intel doesn't have the balls to admit that NetBurst (the P4's microarchitecture) is a steaming pile of crap, and that the Pentium M is far superior to anything that's ever been based on NetBowel.
And, for the record, the PM already contains the only two good features the P4 ever had: SSE2 and the QDR bus. And that's on top of all the wonderful features of the PM that have nothing to do with the P4.
Yeah, Intel is really insecure right now. They're too ashamed to admit that the P4 was a massive fuckup, so they're trying to hide what could have been an incredibly good desktop platform.
I saw one of those Sun x86 PCI cards a while back, sitting around in my local LUG's lab. It was quite impressive...basically a mobo-on-a-PCI-card. It came with a processor, chipset, DIMM slots, PATA ports, onboard USB, onboard audio, integrated graphics, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.
Quite cool.
It seems nobody ever talks about the Northbridge, which, IMHO, will over-take the CPU, within a year, as the hottest component in a computer.
More like the northbridge will disappear in a year or two, at least on AMD platforms. AMD has already integrated the memory controller on-die, and there are rumours of Socket F including an one-die PCI-E controller.
What's left for a northbridge to do?